Constraining the Nature of the PDS 70 Protoplanets with VLTI/GRAVITY ∗

Autor: Wang, J. J., Vigan, A., Lacour, S., Nowak, M., Stolker, T., De Rosa, R. J., Ginzburg, S., Gao, P., Abuter, R., Amorim, A., Asensio-Torres, R., Baubck, M., Benisty, M., Berger, J. P., Beust, H., Beuzit, J. -L., Blunt, S., Boccaletti, A., Bohn, A., Bonnefoy, M., Bonnet, H., Brandner, W., Cantalloube, F., Caselli, P., Charnay, B., Chauvin, G., Choquet, E., Christiaens, V., Cl��net, Y., Foresto, V. Coud�� du, Cridland, A., de Zeeuw, P. T., Dembet, R., Dexter, J., Drescher, A., Duvert, G., Eckart, A., Eisenhauer, F., Facchini, S., Gao, F., Garcia, P., Lopez, R. Garcia, Gardner, T., Gendron, E., Genzel, R., Gillessen, S., Girard, J., Haubois, X., Hei��el, G., Henning, T., Hinkley, S., Hippler, S., Horrobin, M., Houll��, M., Hubert, Z., Jim��nez-Rosales, A., Jocou, L., Kammerer, J., Keppler, M., Kervella, P., Meyer, M., Kreidberg, L., Lagrange, A. -M., Lapeyr��re, V., Bouquin, J. -B. Le, L��na, P., Lutz, D., Maire, A. -L., M��nard, F., M��rand, A., Molli��re, P., Monnier, J. D., Mouillet, D., M��ller, A., Nasedkin, E., Ott, T., Otten, G. P. P. L., Paladini, C., Paumard, T., Perraut, K., Perrin, G., Pfuhl, O., Pueyo, L., Rameau, J., Rodet, L., Rodr��guez-Coira, G., Rousset, G., Scheithauer, S., Shangguan, J., Shimizu, T., Stadler, J., Straub, O., Straubmeier, C., Sturm, E., Tacconi, L. J., van Dishoeck, E. F., Vincent, F., von Fellenberg, S. D., Ward-Duong, K., Widmann, F., Wieprecht, E., Wiezorrek, E., Woillez, J., Collaboration, The GRAVITY
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Gravity (chemistry)
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
[SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]
FOS: Physical sciences
Solar and stellar astrophysics
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
Orbit determination
Exoplanet formation
0103 physical sciences
Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Physics
Earth and planetary astrophysics
Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
13. Climate action
Space and Planetary Science
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Protoplanet
Long baseline interferometry 492 487 1175 932
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Exoplanet atmospheres
Zdroj: The Astronomical Journal
The Astronomical Journal, American Astronomical Society, 2021, 161 (3), pp.148. ⟨10.3847/1538-3881/abdb2d⟩
The Astronomical Journal, 161(3)
ISSN: 0004-6256
1538-3881
Popis: We present K-band interferometric observations of the PDS 70 protoplanets along with their host star using VLTI/GRAVITY. We obtained K-band spectra and 100 $\mu$as precision astrometry of both PDS 70 b and c in two epochs, as well as spatially resolving the hot inner disk around the star. Rejecting unstable orbits, we found a nonzero eccentricity for PDS 70 b of $0.17 \pm 0.06$, a near-circular orbit for PDS 70 c, and an orbital configuration that is consistent with the planets migrating into a 2:1 mean motion resonance. Enforcing dynamical stability, we obtained a 95% upper limit on the mass of PDS 70 b of 10 $M_\textrm{Jup}$, while the mass of PDS 70 c was unconstrained. The GRAVITY K-band spectra rules out pure blackbody models for the photospheres of both planets. Instead, the models with the most support from the data are planetary atmospheres that are dusty, but the nature of the dust is unclear. Any circumplanetary dust around these planets is not well constrained by the planets' 1-5 $\mu$m spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and requires longer wavelength data to probe with SED analysis. However with VLTI/GRAVITY, we made the first observations of a circumplanetary environment with sub-au spatial resolution, placing an upper limit of 0.3~au on the size of a bright disk around PDS 70 b.
Comment: 30 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in AJ
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